About The Book
In a career spanning more than four decades, Berlin-born Sibylle Bergemann created an extraordinary oeuvre ranging from fashion and portrait photographs to literary reportages and atmospheric series – her focus remaining always on people. In the GDR, Bergemann worked both freelance as well as continuously for various art and culture magazines. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she co-founded the self-administered photographer’s agency OSTKREUZ, and worked for leading German as well as international magazines such as GEO, Die Zeit, Stern or New York Times Magazine.
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition at Berlinische Galerie approaches the unique visual universe of one of Germany’s most famous photographers on several narrative levels. It includes more than 200 photographs from the museum’s own collection as well as from the photographer’s estate, and shows selected images from her early work for the first time. Publisher’s Info
About The Artist
Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010) started her career in photography in 1966. From 1967 onwards, she worked as a freelancer for various magazines, including the legendary fashion magazine Sibylle. In the 1990s she traveled extensively around the globe to take photos – now in color rather than black-and-white – for internationally renowned magazines. Books (Selection): Himmelhölle Manhattan (Buchverlag Der Morgen, Berlin, 1986); Mode Foto Mode. (Edition Braus, 1992); Sibylle Bergemann – Die Polaroids (Hatje Cantz, 2011); Sibylle Bergemann (Kehrer, 2016).
Exhibition: Sibylle Bergemann. Fotografie at Muzeum Narodowe Gdansk, Poland (03.02.23 – 03.05.23)
About The Publisher
Hatje Cantz is an international publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, photography, design, and visual culture, founded by Gerd Hatje in Stuttgart in 1945. Since its inception, Hatje Cantz has been developing and publishing illustrated books with a special focus on quality, both in terms of content and production.
